It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.